By Raphael Sassower As the spat between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump revealed, neither is willing to admit what's really going on when one declares bankruptcy. Clinton and her speech-writers... [Read the full story]

By Raphael Sassower While some pundits compare Donald Trump's style and political swagger and outright racism to fascist leaders from Stalin to Mussolini and Hitler, a more apt comparison is... [Read the full story]

By Raphael Sassower As Sadiq Khan has been elected the next Mayor of London, it makes sense to reconsider what's happening in the presidential elections in the United States. While... [Read the full story]

By Raphael Sassower and Jeffrey Scholes Just like anything else outrageous that Donald Trump says, it always has a whiff of something intriguing, if not true. As Pope Francis prepares... [Read the full story]

No matter how bizarre Trump's latest diatribes sound, there is something quite familiar in both their manner and content. This mixture of populism and xenophobia is American through and through... [Read the full story]

The condensation from the Republican establishment and media dismissal of Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate front-runner, reminds me of the initial reception of the candidacy of George W. Bush... [Read the full story]

When my sister and brother-in-law asked a cab driver in Portugal, just two weeks ago, what he thought of the economy, he casually answered: "What Hitler started, Merkel will complete."... [Read the full story]

Just between observing the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (August 6, 1945) and the second dropped on the city of Nagasaki (August... [Read the full story]